An Appearance day of Sri Sri Caitanya Maha-Prabhu (Gaura Purnima) festival was celebrated by Iskcon, Ludhiana.A large number of people enthusiastically participated in the festival. Deities Sri Sri Jagannatha, Baldeva and Subhadra and Sri Sri Gaur Nitai was looking very beautiful in Their colorful dresses. There was Aarti of their Lordship and Panchamrit abhishek of Sri Gaur Nitai. This time the venue of the festival was a little far from temple and was very wide to accommodate twenty thousand p
My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling. S.B.1.8.26 PURPORT Being materially advanced means taking birth in an aristocratic family and possessing great wealth, an education and attractive personal beauty. All materialistic men are mad after possessing a |
Ujjain update 1st March 2010
The celebrations for Gaur Purnima went of perfectly right from mangal arati when we had our temple room nearly full with many students, congregational members and people in the neighborhood attending.
Darshan arati was at 8.30 am and everyone was enchanted to see the deities in their new dress with befitting garlands and jewelery.
The whole day devotees engaged themselves in their assigned services like cutting vegetables, cooking for the deities and devotees while some
Can a truly contemporary person not be an atheist? A fuller articulation of the question would go like this. Must a truly contemporary person, one who is fully acquainted with all the genuine advances in science and philosophy, who has lived under the conditions of contemporary life with its holocaust, its nuclear weapons, its moral corruption -- must not such a perso
On Wednesday, thousands of devotees returned to ISKCON’s headquarters in Mayapur to celebrate Gaura Purnima, the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, after spending a week walking a pilgrimage through holy spots relating to his life.
Temples around the world will celebrate Gaura Purnima on Sunday February 28th, honoring the fifteenth century saint who is worship
Taking advantage of the Vrindavan Kumbha Mela currently underway, Krishna Balaram Mandir organized a Sadhu Sammelan on the topic of the 500th anniversary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Sannyas. As leaders of various groups arrived, they garlanded a deity of Srila Prabhupada placed at one end of the courtyard
March 6, 1999 Sri Sri Panca-tattva Temple Laguna Beach, California
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared on the full-moon day of the month of Phalguna in Sri Navadvipa-dhama in western Bengal. He manifested His pastimes on earth for forty-eight years. For the first twenty-four years, in Navadvipa, He played the role of a child, then of a youth, and then of a married man; for the next six years He traveled throughout India and preached; and for the final eighteen years He resided in Jag
The Scholar and the Boatman
Though a mass of gray was moving in across the northwest sky, the sun was still shining. As he ambled down the shrubby slope to the beachfront below, the man felt a chilly breeze coming through the trees. He turned up his collar and made his way more quickly to the little boat dock, with its slats of soggy old wood.
"Boatman! Take me across!"
"Yes sir—climb aboard!"
Professor Perkins wasn't what you'd call an old man—graying, to be sure; but still sprightly, even athletic
